About the Authors

Chao Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Cheng, Qiang Wang

Affiliation Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Qiang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Cheng, Qiang Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Medical Genomics, Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui-Jin Hospital affiliated to School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Wenjie You

Affiliation Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Manhua Chen

jiahong.xia@mail.hust.edu.cn (JX); cmh_centre@163.com (MC)

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Jiahong Xia

jiahong.xia@mail.hust.edu.cn (JX); cmh_centre@163.com (MC)

Affiliations Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC QW. Performed the experiments: CC QW. Analyzed the data: CC QW MC JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC JX. Wrote the paper: CC QW WY JX. Proofread the manuscript: WY. Paid for some articles: MC.